| Publication |
2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The extensive literature on trauma, social suffering, memory and loss has so far
excluded consideration of the Palestinian Nakba, in spite of its place in world
politics, its many similarities to other cases of social suffering, and the unusual
feature of its continuation and escalation more than sixty years after the
expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. This paper examines this exclusion
through reviewing the genealogy, theoretical orientations, and institutional
supports of the "trauma genre,"from its crystallization in the early 1990s, through
its expansion up to today. The idea of the way the communication of suffering
is facilitated within "moral communities" is invoked as one kind of explanation
of the trauma genre's failure to consider the Nakba.
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